Summary: Better self-control begins with an understanding of the psychological factors that affect behavior. Section one of this program focuses on the influence of brain structure, brain chemistry, and genetics on behavior; section two illustrates key concepts of psychoanalytic theory; and section three distinguishes between classical and operant conditioning. Strengths and limitations of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: William James, more than anyone else, was responsible for introducing the wide range of topics that now make up the broad field of psychology. This program presents some of James’s most important formulations, including his discussions of habit, consciousness, will, and religious experience, as well as what he referred to as the fringe of experience: the hunches, inexpressible feelings, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This program brings to life five of psychology's most significant studies: Bandura's Bobo Doll Experiment, 1961; Milgram's Study of Obedience, 1963; Ainsworth's Strange Situation Experiment, 1971 and 1978; Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment, 1973; and Loftus's Eyewitness Testimony Experiment, 1974. Footage from the original experiments and from contemporary reconstructions is featured...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Drawing upon laboratory and field experiments, this program compares and contrasts experimental research methods through an attractiveness study involving young adults. Section one observes how subjects respond to photos in two lab environments-one comfortable, and one not. Then, section two repeats the experiment in two field locales: a trendy bar and a dull coffee shop. Does context make a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Compact, clear, and packed with key words and phrases to help conversation, this pocket-sized Mandarin phrasebook and dictionary from Rough Guides' trusted language experts (with free app) is a trusty travel companion, and all you need to make yourself understood - and to understand others - when you're out and about in China and other Mandarin-speaking countries. With its emphasis on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rough Guides, APA Publications, (UK) Ltd. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.1 MANSummary: This program presents non-experimental research methods-questionnaires, interviews, and naturalistic observation-through three studies on the effects of cell phone use. Section one explains good questionnaire design while considering both the advantages and limitations of this method. Section two examines the use of unstructured interviews, a more nuanced approach to data collection. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Martin, David W.
Summary: Thirty-six lectures on various aspects of behavioral psychology presented by David W. Martin, professor of psychology at North Carolina State University.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 150 MARSummary: This DVD contains a complete visual dictionary and class for the beginner ballet student. It is an invaluable training tool for the student just beginning ballet and reference guide that can be used for years to come.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV VISConaway, James.
Summary: Recreates Napa Valley's romantic past and sheds light on it glorious, turbulent present.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.2 WINE CONSummary: "The latest research shows that people almost never "rise to the occasion" when faced with a life-threatening challenge, regardless of how often we hear that phrase. Instead, as Professor Nancy Zarse explains in the 12 empowering lectures of Survival Mentality: The Psychology of Staying Alive, people generally revert to their lowest level of training and preparation. And Professor Zarse knows...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.6 ZARSummary: Philip Zimbardo has spent decades researching the transformation of character that occurs when generally good people are led to engage in evil actions. In this lecture, Zimbardo discourses on theories of conformity, prejudice, aggression, social influence, and antisocial behavior. Topics include the permeability of behavioral boundaries; the nature of evil and its societal consequences;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program clarifies selected principles of science by contextualizing them through easily comprehensible applications of psychological research. Divided into five sections, the video illustrates the hypothetical-deductive model of scientific reasoning via Piaget's classic conservation experiment and Donaldson and McGarrigle's challenge of it; the analysis of statistics involving scenarios in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Mary Ainsworth’s 'Strange Situation' is now basic to understandings of infant-parent interactions and, thus, later emotional development. This program details the developmental course of attachment behaviors and the different patterns that are captured by the controlled observational techniques of the 'Strange Situation.' Using archival footage (including the Harlow primate studies) and newer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Contents: Source to sea -- A new beginning -- Island peace -- Dolphin companion -- The water of peace -- The magician -- Freesia -- Light on a silver sea -- Embrace of the sun god -- Once upon a time.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: New World 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE SOUContents: Inner peace -- Sacred space -- Daylight/twilight -- Lady of the lake -- Farewell -- Brimstone -- To the hill crest -- Daffodils -- Music for yoga -- Orchid potion.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: New World 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE SOUGrossman, Dave
Summary: "The author of the 400,000-copy bestseller On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide--and what we must do about it" -- Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 GROBreithaupt, Don.
Summary: Aja was the album that made Steely Dan a commercial force on the order of contemporaries like Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles and Chicago. A double-platinum, Grammy-winning bestseller, it lingered on the Billboard charts for more than a year and spawned three hit singles. Odd, then, that its creators saw it as an "ambitious, extended" work, the apotheosis of their anti-rock, anti-band, anti-glamour...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.33 BRESummary: "The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition is the official source for APA Style. With millions of copies sold worldwide in multiple languages, it is the style manual of choice for writers, researchers, editors, students, and educators in the social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences, nursing, communications, education, business, engineering, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Psychological Assocation 2020
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 808 PUBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word PublicationKalman, Bobbie.
Summary: Introduces readers to early celebrations of Christmas around the world and includes illustrations that focus on customs and traditions of the Victorian era, each featuring a particular Christmas theme and explanation of its origin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2011
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: J 394.2663 KALAmmer, Christine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 423.1 AMMKoenig, John
Summary: Poetically defining emotions we all feel but don't have the words to express, the creator of the popular online project of the same name invites readers on his epic quest to fill the gaps in the language of emotion.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 2001
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 423.1 AMMSummary: For more than a century, Black's Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for the language of law. This edition contains more than 50,000 terms, including more than 7,500 terms new to this edition. It also features expanded bibliographic coverage, definitions of more than 1,000 law-related abbreviations and acronyms, and reviewed and edited Latin maxims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomson Reuters 2019